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For me it was the way so many of the people dress in traditional norwegian outfits on this day, that originally caught my attention to it and fascinated me about it :) That's years ago now, and I try to see the parades every year when possible (mostly thanks to NRK1 ;) ). I think it's a very...

It's norway's constitution day today, may 17th, and they have parades in almost any corner of the globe to celebrate it. Here's a video of one of them: http://bambuser.com/v/2652295 Later today there will also be one in New York (and other places also) Congratulations ("gratulerer med dagen")...

Seems like it all went as planned. Image from TV2-NEWS:

2 apartment blocks in Denmark (Scandinavia) being blown up in about half an hour (10 am UTC, 12 pm EST (local time), 6 am eastern, 3 am pacific) LIVE video on these (danish) links: http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Indland/2012/05/11/111023.htm http://jp.dk/jptv/nyheder/indland/article2774748.ece

You can check in on some of #2's surveillance cameras here, with various LIVE views over the village, and see what schemes, if any, the unsuspecting citizens are up to right now: http://www.portmeirion-village.com/content.php?nID=104;lID=1 Be seeing you :tiphat:

Patrick McGoohan was simply perfect in the role as #6. "The Prisoner" is an absolutely amazing show.

@Urwumpe; And if enough panic can be created there's a real risk that the 'good guys' will shoot some of their 'protective' weapons and end up creating havoc (or at least kill some innocent civilians in a random freak accident, like that guy* the british police shot at one time not too long ago...

A clever guy/gal terrorist would just fly a harmless RC into the zone, and then all the shooting-power will be committed by those pretending to protect us. You can't tell in advance if the RC is harmless or loaded with bad stuff. So all these efforts may in fact just aid the terrorists in their...

...as a search-term on google gave me this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_photonic_rocket Fascinating stuff, even if still mostly theoretical :)

@jedidia; thanks :) Would you say, that if we made a vehicle with the shape of a large dish-antenna, or a bowl, with a strong radiating device placed underneath it, that it might theoretically be possible to make this vehicle levitate by the radiation-pressure coming from it's radiative 'pod' at...

A value above zero? ;)

Isn't it when the photons hit the back of the antenna they create a push-effect on the space-craft? The antenna was on the 'back' side (pointing to earth) and the heat-source on the 'front' side (in the direction of travel). That's how I understood it at least. Somewhat similar to flying with a...

Thanks :) Can we say each nuclear powerplant, when running, accelerates down on the ground in the neighborhood of an extra 1 or 2 newton then (beyond their mere weight)?

Sounds good :)